• Andy@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    I feel like a lot of people are missing the obvious conclusion that everyone involved here is awful.

    Maduro? Brutal dictator. His domestic opposition? Violent fascists. His international opposition? Absolute war criminals.

    It’s really sad. My primary opinion is that the US needs to leave Venezuela the fuck alone. If you want democracy in Venezuela, you can’t get it through sanctioning the population into starvation if they don’t vote the way Chevron tells them to. Did Maduro steal an election? Yes! But his opposition at home and abroad isn’t mad that it wasn’t fair: they’re mad because they think it’s bullshit for him to steal it after they stole it first!

    Get the fuck out and let them actually decide what they want. The US is the clearly the greatest villain in a story with no obvious good guys.

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      7 months ago

      The problem is that all of the “evidence” for Maduro cheating comes from the same people that said the US 2020 election was rigged, and are using it as ammo for regime change. Machado and the like are fascists that are trying to topple a democratically elected socialist, just like Pinochet with Allende.

      Under Maduro, Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication. I’m not sure on what basis you distrust him so much, Venezuela is building socialism under Maduro from the bottom-up, and Maduro is doing his part from the top.

      Maduro is no dictator just like Allende wasn’t.

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        7 months ago

        Maduro cheating comes from the same people that said the US 2020 election was rigged

        Do you have a source for that? Because from what I can tell, the exact opposite is true, and the sources for these two claims are generally opposed to each other.

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          7 months ago

          Trump’s entire imperialist cabinet roughly orbit around the idea of the election being stolen, and are the biggest pushers of claims of fraud. The reasoning for the former was to try to overturn turn the US election, the reasoning is the same for the Venezuelan election, they would rather have the fascist opposition win. It’s another Allende situation.